Fun Fearless Males 2011: Armie Hammer

By
Mina Azodi

Mar 07, 2011

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Twenty-four-year-old Armie Hammer scored a sweet breakout role (and earned lots of buzz) as the multimillionaire identical twins Cam eron and Tyler Winklevoss in The Social Network. (They sued Face book CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly stealing their idea for the site and reportedly earned millions in a settlement.) As the great-grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer, Armie shares the twins' prestigious back- ground, but sadly for us, there's only one of him. (Even sadder: He got hitched last May.) We asked the 6-foot-5 actor why he's not on Facebook…and to tell us his favorite type of underwear on a woman.'

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Cosmo: So you're not on Facebook?

Armie Hammer: I was in college, but I quit a couple of years after I graduated. It got to the point where I was checking it every day, and I just started to get sick of it. The status updates, and who tagged what photos, who poked whom. There's all this stuff to keep track of. I'd rather just pick up my phone and text somebody.

Describe the most fearless thing you've done.

I grew up in the Cayman Islands. I didn't play video games or watch TV. I would basically come home from school, throw down my backpack, grab my machete, and go hike and chop down trees to make a fort.

What's the sexiest thing a woman can wear?

My favorite women's underwear isn't the tiny thong that exposes everything. It's the sexy booty shorts—the lacy kind that you can see through, but it's covered and you're like "I wanna get in there!"

What's the best compliment a woman can give a guy?

When she says "I just feel so safe" if I put my arm around her. I think a primal role of a man in a relationship is to protect his woman.